Proverbs 25:18

Modern King James Version

A man who bears false witness against his neighbor is a maul, and a sword, and a sharp arrow.

Cross References

Psalm 140:3

They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; adders' poison is under their lips. Selah.

Psalm 52:2

Your tongue devises evil, like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.

Psalm 55:21

The butterings of his mouth were forked, but war was in his heart; his words were softer than oil, yet they were drawn swords.

Psalm 57:4

My soul is among lions; I lie among those on fire, the sons of men whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.

Exodus 20:16

You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.

Proverbs 12:18

There are those who speak like the thrusts of a sword, but the tongue of the wise heals.

Proverbs 24:28

Do not be a witness against your neighbor without cause, nor deceive with your lips.

Proverbs 25:17

Withdraw your foot from your neighbor's house, lest he be weary of you and hate you.

Jeremiah 9:3

And they bend their tongues like their bow for lies. But they are not mighty for the truth on the earth; for they go from evil to evil, and they do not know Me, says Jehovah.

Jeremiah 9:8

Their tongue is a slaughtering arrow; it speaks deceit; one speaks peaceably to his neighbor with his mouth, but in heart he lies in ambush.

James 3:6

And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity. So the tongue is set among our members, spotting all the body and inflaming the course of nature, and being inflamed by hell.